Word: taxed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exemption of educational and other similar institutions. This was in part because the pension sections of the Act were not well adapted to such groups as college faculties, but principally because the application of the unemployment compensation sections of the Act to such institutions would have created a heavy tax on account of individuals not likely to receive benefits. It is believed that various features of the Act may be changed within the next few years, and it is possible that the institutional exemption may be modified...
Although this suggestion is economically sound, it may seem to be morally objectionable because it proposes that the University, a private institution, should tax some of its employees for the benefit of others. But by so doing, the University would merely be following the principles approved by Congress in the Social Security Act, which Harvard professes to accept as its own standard. If the University should choose to be guided by broad sociological considerations rather than by narrow logic, it will see that a policy of accepting the principle of security for the lowest paid and then failing to provide...
Plans were laid to investigate the advisability of a State College located in Boston and to fight the Sales Tax Bill...
...perfectly evident to me," he said, "that at the college level, and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond. They have been concerned, by and large, with a competition for the most promising youths in the income tax paying group; and at least three-quarters, or more probably 90 per cent, of the youths of the country are not to be found within this class...
...Nowak, after 35 years building up the retail feed business founded by his father, last year sold $1,500,000 worth of livestock feed. To do so, Max Nowak had to spend $7,008 in 1937 for clerical help, auditors and attorneys to make out 1,100 tax reports, to pay $20,000 in taxes to 28 States and the Federal Government. Said he last week as he sold out to Vitality Mills, Inc.: "It is not merely the amount of tax I have to pay. It's also the annoyance of having to report this and that...